i think it would be a sweet idea!

as long as you don't play a hardcore nazi, but if your just a common german soldier then taking over france could be fun. It'll suck when you have to get your ass kicked by the russians at the end of the game though :)

Eh, I think we need to move away from actual, historic wars in videogames, in my opinion.

I'm not totally against them...but I will say it's a little disrespectful if we exaggerate or desensitize such an awful war.

And I don't think it's completely desensitizing gamers to violence either...but I think it's better to have fictional wars, like COD4, or scrimmage-type games, like CS and TF2.

Or maybe I'm just sick of WW2 games in general.  I do still love Company of Heroes, and you can totally play as the Nazis there, and I love playing as them the most.

 I agree 100%

Let's play a game as a Nazi and blow Stalin's head off!!!

Well said, and a very, very good first post.

I think a lot of the problem comes from education. I don't know if the rest of the world's schools cover WW2 like America's (and god help us all if they do...) but here in the states, the event is covered in about 3 days.

Day 1: Hitler was bad, he killed lots of Jews (just Jews, never gypsies, gays, blacks, the disabled, the elderly or any of the other victims of the Eugenics movement of the time)

Day 2: America comes in and single handedly wins the war... OK that part may be taught differently everywhere else.

Day 3: Japan is evil and for no reason attacks Pearl Harbor. After much skimmed over fighting, America drops an atomic bomb (yes, I have read a text book which used the singular "bomb" and never mentioned the town names), and wins the war.Yay. Much celebration ensued.

Part of me cannot blame the teachers for going quickly over WW2 (and never mentioning anything about WW1 aside from the occasion refference to Archduke Fernidand), because, it is complicated. WW2 was not an isolated moment in history, it was born on the battlefields of WW1, and, even today, it is a little hard to put all the pieces together.

That said, we really need to start teaching kids better, it is a little scary to think that in a few years, a vast majority of the real knowledge of WW2 will be dead and buried, and all that will remain will be incorrect textbooks and Call of Duty games.

Not a Nazi. A Wehrmacht soldier. That was the basic German infantry, and most of the time they fought for the fatherland not for Hitler, in fact, he tried to keep his soldiers in the gray about the horrors back home. It would be a great campaign as long as they kept those two things out. They need to depict the Germans as people too considering that's just what they are. They are people not Nazis. All of the games depict them as "evil" but they were just other soldiers, and fine ones at that. The one benefit will be that when you kill 10 guys in one attack it will be realistic, because I don't think too many Yanks were slaying the Germans by the dozens... hehe

WHY does everyone say NAZI!? They weren't Nazis. The Nazis were the political leaders an their only "true supporters" were brainwashed like the SS and Hitler youth. You would play a Wehrmacht soldier fighting for GERMANY. It will be "Call of Duty: Opposing front" or something, we aren't trying to make "concentration camp tycoon" here...

I agree 100%, the shit they teach us here is unbearable... Why do we glorify ourselves? and the kids think all germans are Nazis!!! God I hate our society...

i would buy day one if u could play as a nazi...

agreed

The Germans as a rule beat the shit out of their enemies.  But they were overrun frequently and had ill supply.  But yes, there were a few wins, especially in the beginning of the war.